Mocai vs NANSENSE Studio

Mocai reconstructs a subject’s body, mesh, and motion from one video as markerless motion capture. The maker says footage from any single camera, including a phone, works without markers, suits, or calibration. Each performer has 70 tracked keypoints, and skeleton exports use a 127-joint rig. Capture options include finger articulation, multiple performers, root motion, floor grounding, occlusion repair, adjustable smoothing, and synchronized footage review. Exports include FBX, GLB, BVH, USD, and raw keypoints, with optional retargeting to Mixamo, UE5 Manny, and MetaHuman rigs. Plugins for Blender, Unity, Maya, and Unreal Engine support clip uploads and take imports. A public API supports uploads and webhooks; an MCP server can manage takes and exports. The free plan includes one minute of footage per month, clips up to 15 seconds, and single-person capture. Basic costs $10 a month for 10 minutes monthly and clips up to 30 seconds. The monthly footage allowance is shared between portal and API use, and uploads pause when it is reached.

NANSENSE Studio processes inertial motion-capture data in real time and provides tools to edit recordings, post-process them, and animate character assets. Its locomotion solver handles foot placement, floor collisions, foot sliding, jumps, and height tracking. Recording tags for events such as foot, hand, hip, jump, and floor can guide automated post-processing. The Character Engine imports, poses, retargets, and animates humanoid assets, including mapping body, finger, and face data. Studio streams capture data to Unreal, Unity, Maya, MotionBuilder, and Blender, with custom integrations supported through its streaming protocol. It uses timecode for synchronization and UDP triggers to control recordings. Export formats include FBX, BVH, C3D, ASF, AMC, and CSV; recordings are also saved in a proprietary raw format. Studio is listed for iOS and Windows, though its stated system requirements specify 64-bit Windows 7, 8, 10, or 11, with Windows 10 or 11 recommended. The Studio license costs $1,799 as a one-time purchase, per customer rather than per seat, and has no monthly fees.